[SunRescue] Decstation 3100 and 5000/25 drives on Suns?????

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Aug 27 12:47:27 CDT 1999


On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, BSD Bob wrote:
>They appear to be RZ24E,   RZ24L-E,  and RZ23L-E labelled.
>
>Anyone have the specs on those for Sun 3, Sun 4, Sun SS1, Sun IPX use?
>I have had bad luck trying to format these things using the standard
>format.dat file info, for some unknown reason, on the old hardware.

  The biggest issue with those is to get them jumpered to spin up on powerup. 
They should do fine if you get that taken care of.

>The 23's are 1 gig, and the 24's are 2 gig, I think.

  Nope...the RZ23 is 121mb, the RZ24 is 245mb.  Sorry... :-(

     -Dave MGuire






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